"A Clockwork Orange" da Burgess a Kubrick

This is an introduction to a collection of articles on Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange" and its filmic version by Stanley Kubrick, as well as an essay by itself on the meanings of both the novel and the film; the novel's language and its cinematic translation through audio-visual codes; the narrative structures of the novel and the various stages of adaptations in the scripts; the contradictory two endings of the novel (Pelagian and Augustinian); and Burgess's reception of Kubrick's film